Method for operating a vertical packaging machine and vertical packaging machine
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- ULMA PACKAGING SCOOP
- Publication Date
- 2013-11-14
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Abstract
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application relates to and claims the benefit and priority to European Patent Application No. 12382175, filed May 14, 2012.TECHNICAL FIELD
[0002] The invention relates to a method for operating a packaging machine, in particular of a vertical packaging machine, and the vertical packaging machine.BACKGROUND
[0003] There are known vertical packaging machines that comprise a feeder that supplies a laminar film, a forming tool adapted to give a tubular shape to the laminar film, forming a laminar tube, and at least two advance modules, each one of which comprises at least one drive belt arranged facing the forming tool. The drive belts, as they move, cause the movement of the laminar tube towards one end of the exit of the forming tool. In addition, these machines comprise longitudinal sealing means adapted to seal longitudinally the two longitudinal ends of the laminar film that forms the laminar tube, and transverse cutting and sealing mea...